· Private foundation
John and Engrid Meng Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k42 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $449k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+1 grant · $335k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREEN BAY | $335,000 |
| NEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC | $200,000 |
| GREATER GREEN BAY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $200,000 |
| CEREBRAL PALSY INC | $169,500 |
| BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $155,000 |
| FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC | $100,000 |
| CONNECTIONS FOR MENTAL WELLNESS | $100,000 |
| NEIGHBORWORKS GREEN BAY | $100,000 |
| HOWE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $70,000 |
| FIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $68,200 |
| GREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $66,000 |
| MAP INTERNATIONAL | $61,500 |
| OPTIONS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC | $60,000 |
| UNITY HOSPICE | $50,345 |
| GREEN BAY NEIGHBORHOODS | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $969k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
102 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- GGGREATER GREEN BAY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY7× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +78%
- CPCEREBRAL PALSY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +43%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC6× · 2017–2024 · $605k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- MTMEYER THEATRE CORPORATIONone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +5%
- FFOUNDATIONSone grant, 2017 · $11k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE WILDLIFE SANCTUARYone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Empowering learners to achieve excellence by linking knowledge to practice.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
We actively advocate, educate and support our members to help them positively impact the wisconsin communities they serve.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heritage Hill Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
89 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 89 of the 159 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GREATER GREEN BAY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds CEREBRAL PALSY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF GREEN BAY INC ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVINGINC ↗
- Who funds THE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC ↗
- Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL PARTNERSHIP FOR HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BELLIN COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds CURATIVE CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HOWE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN BAY NEIGHBORHOODS ↗
- Who funds ENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION & CARE INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds ROTARY FOUNDATION OF GREEN BAY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST HOMELESS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: George Kress Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · K C Stock Foundation Inc · Schreiber Foods Foundation Inc · Schneider National Foundation Inc · Cornerstone Foundation of Northeastern Wisconsin Inc · De Pere Christian Outreach · Michael & Leanne Haddad Family Foundation Inc · Byron L Walter Family Trust Xxxxx0002 · Little Rapids Corporation - Egan Family Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization John and Engrid Meng Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Curry College — 0% of income from government
- Nichols College — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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